April 2, 2001, Texas. Boerne resident Fred A. Taylor is indicted by a Kendall County grand jury on one felony charge of fraudulent filing of a Uniform Commercial Code financing statement. Taylor, who according to newspaper reports is a self-proclaimed member of the sovereign citizen movement, had allegedly filed the documents against his ex-wife's attorney and a judge who ordered him to pay child support. Taylor faces up to two years in prison, if convicted.

April 3, 2001, Maine. Cherryfield, Maine, resident Delbert Weller receives a two-year sentence on state tax felonies. Weller, a tax protester, was found guilty of two counts of income tax evasion, two counts of filing fraudulent returns, and one count of failing to file an income tax return. According to prosecutors, Weller claimed that he was not subject to state or federal law.

April 3, 2001, California. Jesse Chapman of Lancaster is arrested by police on suspicion of possession of narcotics for sale. Police say that Chapman is believed to be a member of the Nazi Low Riders gang, a white supremacist street and prison gang heavily linked to the methamphetamine trade.

April 3, 2001, Washington, Nevada, Arizona, California, Texas. Federal agents arrest three men allegedly involved in running a Ponzi scheme that took in $74 million from thousands of investors in the U.S. and Canada. Arrested are John Wayne Zidar of Nevada, John Wesley Matthews of Arizona, and William Cravens of California; they are charged with mail and wire fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy. Two more suspects-Elizabeth Ann Phillips of Washington and Steven Moreland of Texas-are not initially arrested but will later turn themselves in. The suspects are self-declared "constitutionalists," a name given to members of the anti-government sovereign citizen movement.

April 3, 2001, New York. A federal indictment charges Loretta Claire Marra and Dennis John Malvasi of New York City with interfering with the government's case against James Kopp, who is charged with the 1998 shooting of an abortion doctor, by helping Kopp evade law enforcement. They are also charged with obstructing a grand jury investigation. They face ten years in prison on each charge if convicted.

April 4, 2001, California. Riverside police arrest two women and a man on suspicion of attempted murder after they allegedly critically injured a man over a drug deal. Arrested are James Lee Abbot, Barbara Noe, and Cheron Ahpuck, all of Riverside. According to police, Abbot is a white supremacist and member of the Riverside Independent Skinheads.

April 5, 2001, South Carolina. Jimmy Kris Crawford receives a 37 month prison sentence for his role in burning crosses that belonged to a predominantly black church. Crawford had encouraged two teenagers to burn two of the church's crosses as part of a Ku Klux Klan initiation ceremony. According to the sentencing judge, Crawford had also told one of the teenagers to throw a firebomb into another predominantly black church, but it failed to ignite (had the church burned, said the judge, an additional twenty years would have been added to his sentence). Crawford had been attempting to form a Klan group called the South Carolina Ghost Riders. The teenagers had earlier pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the incident.

April 5, 2001, Illinois. Matthew Braakman of Gurnee receives a two-year prison sentence for his attack on a black teenager at a party in January. According to police, Braakman approached the victim and told him he was a white supremacist and Klan member, then attacked the victim. Another person charged in the same incident, Brian Wohlgemuth, fails to appear in court, causing an arrest warrant to be issued.

April 6, 2001, Washington. A former Stevens County commissioner receives a three month sentence and $2,600 fine for his actions during a traffic stop in December 2000. J. D. Anderson, a member of the sovereign citizen movement, was charged with failing to obey police and obstructing officers during the traffic stop. Anderson, who represented himself in court, argued that the court had no jurisdiction over him.

April 6, 2001, West Virginia, South Carolina. South Carolina resident James List pleads guilty in federal court in Clarksburg, West Virginia, to charges of mail fraud and filing a false tax return related to his role in the Florida-based Greater Ministries International, an organization led by anti-government extremists that operated a multimillion dollar pyramid scheme. List faces up to eight years in prison.

April 9, 2001, Pennsylvania. Valerie R. Harvey of Philadelphia turns herself in to authorities seeking her for failing to appear at hearings related to criminal charges for failing to return a rental car. Calling herself Queen Vallahra El Harre Bey of the Noble Great Seal Moors, she refuses to participate in court hearings, saying that her ancenstry predates the establishment of U.S. law and that U.S. laws have no jurisdiction over her. Harvey is a member of the Moorish movement, an African-American offshoot of the anti-government sovereign citizen movement. The movement is very active in Philadelphia.

April 11, 2001, Washington. Okanogan County resident Mark Alen Rabenold, a sovereign citizen and pirate radio broadcaster who had declared that the courts had no jurisdiction over him, agrees to a plea bargain on charges related to an alleged attempt to run over a federal marshal with a car. Rabenold will plead guilty to third degree assault, while a federal assault charge will be dismissed.

April 11, 2001, Maine. A Franklin County jury indicts Richard A. Smith of Farmington on five counts of income tax evasion and five counts of failure to make and file income tax returns. Smith, a member of the sovereign citizen movement, claims that he is a private citizen of one of the states of the United States, but not a citizen of the United States and therefore not subject to Maine income taxes, according to authorities.

April 14, 2001, California. Three self-described white supremacists are arrested following an alleged attack on a liquor store clerk. Reportedly Kamerson Salley, Teresa Parmeley, and Justin Bailey, all Riverside residents, attacked the clerk while yelling racial slurs. The crime is being investigated as a hate crime.

April 19, 2001, Colorado, Wyoming. Wyoming resident Rex Rabou receives a 35 month prison sentence for attempting to sell 31 pipe bombs to a person who turned out to be an undercover ATF agent in Colorado in 2000. Rabou, a white supremacist and alleged regional officer of the neo-Nazi National Alliance, thought he was selling the bombs to a member of the "National Militia," a fictitious militia group.

April 20, 2001, California. Roy Ashlock of Ventura receives a one-year sentence and five years of probation for his peripheral role in a 1998 murder after pleading guilty to accessory to murder after the fact. That year David Ziesmer, a member of the white supremacist Skinhead Dogs gang, allegedly stabbed a teenage girl to death because he thought she had informed on his criminal activity to police (he is awaiting trial). Ashlock, though not a gang member, helped members dispose of the body. After his arrest, he cooperated with investigators and agreed to testify against others charged in the case.

April 23, 2001, Michigan. Militia leader Mark Koernke is sentenced concurrently to 2-6 years in prison on two charges of assault with a dangerous weapon, between 21 months and three years for resisting and obstructing an officer, and between three and 7 ½ years for fleeing a police officer. Koernke had been convicted in March for fleeing police seeking a bank robbery suspect in Koernke's home town of Dexter, Michigan (Koernke had not been involved in the robbery).

April 23, 2001, Arizona. Authorities serve Jason Paul Doty, already in jail in Tucson, with an arrest warrant for first degree murder, robbery, and burglary. Doty is accused of the murder of a restaurant manager during a robbery; he had previously been indicted for first degree murder for the March slaying of a security guard and for the death of a friend who died in a car wreck during a police pursuit. Authorities say that while previously in prison Doty had attempted to form a Satanist group called the "Circle of Satan" and a jail chapter of the White Aryan Resistance.

April 24, 2001, Kentucky. Federal agents arrest Chris Ayers, a Kentucky State Militia member, on weapons charges. According to militia leader Charlie Puckett, Ayers was found to be in possession of a fully automatic weapons and a sawed off shotgun.

April 24, 2001, Ohio. Sovereign citizen activists Sandra Lehman and Ellis Lehman of Akron receive sentences of two months and one months in jail, respectively, plus probation, following their guilty plea in March to 18 counts of intimidating public officials. Judge Richard M. Markus gives them the lenient sentence under the condition that they cooperate "aggressively" in any future investigations and testify in court if necessary. The two were associated with a prominent sovereign citizen group called Right Way L.A.W., headquartered in Ohio.